Welcome to the Western Carolina University Education Briefcase website!

Here you will find background information on the evolution of the WCU Education Briefcase
(eB), and resources to help students get started building an eBriefcase. Faculty will
find help incrporating the eB in all aspects of their teaching.

The eBriefcase will be the WCU student’s key to joining the growing trend toward online
representation to peers, instructors, future employers, and graduate schools. The
eB is the place where all aspects of the educational experience come together to foster
the development of a well-rounded and capable lifelong learner.

eBriefcase Implementation StrategyIn the Fall of 2011, students enrolled in English 101 classes will be introduced to
the eB and will begin to upload files and create artifacts based on their writing
assignments. Students who were introduced to the eB in English 101 during the 2010-11
year will continue to use eB in English 202, and will upload any work from other classes
that they wish to preserve for use in their portfolios. In addition, several departments
and programs will begin to use the eB in their classes and their students will begin
to incorporate work product from all aspects of activities in their major. These new
adopters include Therapeutic Recreation, Parks and Recreation Management, Environmental
Health, Anthropology and Sociology, Social Work, Emergency and Disaster Management,
the Master of School Administration and Certificate in Public School Leadership program,
and students in the Grant Writing in Health Sciences graduate class.